Queen of the Blue World

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Queen of the Blue World

by Basil Wells

EN·~29 minutes

Chapters

Description

A Martian scout crew touches down on a bewildering world that the natives call Soora—a planet of blue‑tinged jungles, endless mossy plains and swamps that glow with an alien hue. The landscape teems with strange life: intelligent insect‑men called Yzaps, bat‑like monsters, and the terrifying, winged thuftars that patrol the humid air. The air is thick and oppressive, and every step feels like an intrusion into an ecosystem that is both beautiful and hostile.

When Rurak Dun’s battered wingcraft crashes amid the tangled jungle, he and his companion are forced into a desperate fight against a swarm of thuftars threatening to tear the wreck apart. Amid the chaos, the crew discovers the wreckage of the long‑lost ship Indra, hinting that Prince Hudar Kel and his party might still be alive. With the Martian throne in turmoil and a new ruler urgently needed, the mission to locate the missing prince becomes a race against time—and a test of survival in an alien wilderness.

Details

Language

en

Duration

~29 minutes (27K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2020-05-09

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

BW

Basil Wells

1912–2003

A lively pulp-era storyteller, this American author moved easily between science fiction, fantasy, westerns, and detective fiction. His tales first appeared in magazines in 1940, and he became especially associated with adventurous stories for classic genre pulps like Planet Stories.

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